St. Croix Consolidated Copper Co. v. Guaranteed Investment Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas county: Eeanic A. Ross, Circuit Judge. Action to quiet title to forty acres of land the title to which was in plaintiff prior to the issuance of a tax deed under which defendants claim title. Such tax deed was issued to the defendant Qua/rcmteed Investment Company June 11, 1912, and recorded on said date, at which time the land was wild and unoccupied.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas county: Eeanic A. Ross, Circuit Judge. Action to quiet title to forty acres of land the title to which was in plaintiff prior to the issuance of a tax deed under which defendants claim title. Such tax deed was issued to the defendant Qua/rcmteed Investment Company June 11, 1912, and recorded on said date, at which time the land was wild and unoccupied. Seventeen days later plaintiff began an action of ejectment against the grantee in the tax deed, alleging possession of the land to he in defendant by virtue of -the recording of the tax…
1Opinion of the CourtViNjn, J.
Defendants claim, inter alia, that the statute ■ of limitations has not run on their first tax deed because -of the commencement, pendency, and dismissal of plaintiff’s ejectment action. Such action was begun June 28, 1912, seventeen days after the.recording of the tax deed, and was *461not dismissed until April 28, 1916. AYhen it was begun, the statute of limitations had not run on defendant’s tax deed and it was pleaded as a defense therein. No adjudication as to the merit of that defense has ever been made, because the first action was dismissed by plaintiff and the court held that it could…
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